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Because it’s the Habs and the Coyotes, I’m expecting the Habs to run rough shod over Arizona, and then lose spectacularly. Somehow. Because obviously.
Ooh! Mike Johnson is on tonight. I love it when he’s on the broadcasting team.
First Period
- Oh. That’s not a good start…puck over the glass less than 30 seconds in.
- Joe Morrow is PKing. I think Julien might be trying to even the playing field for Arizona right now. (It went better than it could have, actually.)
- Well that’s a blast from the past. Joel Hanley is on the Yotes.
- Oh. Wow. Hudon…Gally…I’m going to need a moment to compose myself.
- PAULIE. Also wow. Perfect, perfect pass from Chucky.
- So like…it looks like my earlier prediction was very wrong. I love being wrong about stuff like this.
- This call is garbage. On the other hand maybe the ref did the Habs a favour…
- No goal on the four-on-four, but given the good chances the Habs had, I’d say probably was a favour.
- Oh Joe. Joe why.
- Well. That was better than I was anticipating./
Second Period
- HOW DID THEY NOT SCORE. On the other hand, it probably would have been called back for goaltender interference…
- Desrosies definitely got the better of that fight.
- Oh bah. Of course the first goal in almost a year. And on the first shot of a period. agressively rolls eyes.
- And then Rosie to the box. This is starting to look like the game I was afraid we were gonna get.
- Oh lord. Five-on-three for Arizona. TWO puck over the glass penalties in one game. This is going great.
- Welp. There it is. Tie game.
- The worst team in the league is making the Habs run around in their own end. This is a bit not good.
- You get a breakaway!!! We get a breakaway!!! Except we score on ours. WHEEEEEEE!!!! Morrow with a beauty. Also, thank you Charlie for that save.
- Hey look. The Habs woke up again.
- Oooorrrr maybe not.
- This is not a good game.
- YES. Wow. What. A. Beauty. From. Shea. Weber.
- Holy cow…PLEK? What??
- That was a Bad Period, goals aside./
Third Period
- CHARLIE. Thank you. Wow. Habs, don’t do that to your baby goalie twice on the same power play. At least it got better.
- Charlie is the only reason the Habs are not losing right now. Aaaaaaalll Arizona right now. Montreal needs to get their act together…
- Oh lord. This is not good.
- They deserve this….this is baaad.
- DO. NOT. TOUCH. GALLY. DO. NOT.
- The good news is, apparently, that Gallagher is ok. The bad news? Their power play sucks.
- Ooor not. Gally is off now. Power play still sucks though.
- Nice poke by Charlie. Everything else is awful.
- Everything remains awful. I was definitely, definitely right coming into this game. Except that they haven’t even played well after the first period.
- Lol. That was so OBVIOUSLY a kicking motion. At least Shaw is back too.
- Oh so NOW Ranta plays well.
- Of all the times to NOT suck on the power play, this is it, Habs…
- And then they didn’t do it. NO one is surprised.
- That was bad. That was really bad.
- Habs lose 5-4 in regulation to the worst team in the league./
Highlight of the night
Charles Hudon with the sweet feed, and Gallagher with the nice finish.
Habs lead 1-0 pic.twitter.com/DyBjiccBvV
— Scott Matla (@scottmatla) November 17, 2017
EOTP 3 Stars
3. It really was
2. “I don’t think this whole hockey thing is for me, grandchild”
1. And they just had to find the last-place team to do so….
